Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Army Wages iPod Warfare in Baghdad
December 17th, 2008Via: Wired: During a humanitarian aid distribution in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Staff Sgt. Kent Crandall brought along a nifty iPod accessory: an Army psychological operations loudspeaker. Crandall had loaded the iPod with Iraqi pop music, which he cranked during the halal food handout in this war-torn neighborhood. This is only one of the tools in […]
Scotland Yard Anti-terrorism Adviser Wanted by Interpol for Terrorist Offences
December 17th, 2008Via: Telegraph: Former intelligence chief Baroness Neville-Jones has urged Scotland Yard to sack one of its anti-terrorism advisers who is wanted by Interpol for terrorist offences. Mohamed Ali Harrath has reportedly been advising the Metropolitan Police, the UK’s biggest force, on countering Muslim extremism. Lady Neville-Jones, who chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee, and is a […]
NZ: Anti-Terror Squad Spies on Protest Groups
December 14th, 2008Via: Stuff / Sunday Star Times: Police teams set up to identify terrorism threats and risks to national security are spying on protest and community groups, including Greenpeace, animal rights and climate change campaigners, and Iraq war protesters. Police officers from the Special Investigation Group (SIG) have carried out surveillance and used a paid informer […]
Australia: Private Intelligence Company Monitors Activists Online for Police
November 26th, 2008Via: The Australian: A PRIVATE intelligence company has been engaged by police to secretly monitor internet and email use by activist and protest groups, a report says. The company was hired to monitor and report on the internet activities of anti-war campaigners, animal rights activists, environmental campaigners, and other protest groups, Fairfax Media reported. It […]
Cops Stage Fight at Protest to Protect Identities of Undercover Officers
November 9th, 2008Wave your signs. There are so many pigs around that you might get them to pepperspray each other. Via: ABC Denver: Undercover police officers posing as protesters staged a fight with a police commander during the Democratic convention, and it was so convincing they were pepper-sprayed by a deputy who wasn’t in on the ruse, […]
U.S. Policymakers Mull Creation of Domestic Intelligence Agency
October 22nd, 2008Via: CNN: The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles. Canada has CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency? On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of […]
Cybercrime Supersite Was FBI Honeypot
October 14th, 2008Via: Wired: DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI cybercrime agent for the last two years, until its voluntary shutdown earlier this month, according to documents unearthed by a German radio network. Reports from the German national police obtained by […]
New Homeland Security Magic 8 Ball Removes Terrorists Fast! Now with 100% More WTF?
September 24th, 2008“Sorry, officer, I’ve been reading Cryptogon for so many years I thought the twitching would have stopped by now.” Via: Fox News: Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or […]
U.N. Agency Eyes Curbs on Internet Anonymity
September 14th, 2008The NSA and the Chinese government are working together, through the U.N., to draft plans for systems that would enable all Internet sessions to be authoritatively traced back to their origins. Man, if this one doesn’t get your tinfoil in a knot, nothing will. If you want to know what anonymous on the Internet actually […]
Secret Assassination Program is Key in Iraq, Woodward Says
September 10th, 2008Oh sure, Bob. During the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program ran from 1967 through the Tet Offensive and until the Americans fled Vietnam. I seriously doubt that an assassination program is working in Iraq. More likely, the cash bribes that the U.S. has been paying to insurgents to stay home, or kill their religious enemies […]
